UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DO CEARÁ

CENTRO DE HUMANIDADES/ CURSO DE MÚSICA

ATIVIDADES PARA A DISCIPLINA DE INGLÊS INSTRUMENTAL
Profa. Luciana Gifoni

1. Leia o texto abaixo e responda as perguntas a seguir: trabalho 1 em 16/02

The Faculty of Music has one of the largest and liveliest communities of graduate
students in the United Kingdom. Usually about 20 new students enter every year,
coming from countries all around the world. Graduate students have the benefit of a
team of international experts to supervise their research, access to outstanding libraries,
and the stimulus of a committed group of like-minded students and scholars in many
subject areas. The University, the colleges and the city of Oxford provide a lively and
diverse musical, academic and cultural atmosphere.

Subject areas, approaches, and modes of study are very varied. Students may
concentrate on Western music history (from chant to film music), source studies, music
theory, aesthetics and criticism, composition and analysis, musical instruments,
ethnomusicology, musical performance and interpretation. Many individual research
projects are unique in their blend of approaches; frequently they extend into other
academic disciplines such as literature, art history, theatre and film studies, philosophy
or general history.

<https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/apply/postgraduate/>

a) Quem é o provável autor do texto?

b) Quem são os leitores em potencial do texto?

c) Qual o objetivo do texto?

d) Onde podemos encontrar outros textos como esse?

2. Faça uma busca por “musical instruments” na Internet e identifique os tipos de alguns
textos. Observe se os textos procuram persuadir, narrar, descrever, informar, argumentar ou
dar instruções. Trabalho 2 em 16/02 para 23/02
3. Sobre as palavras cognatas, observe a presença delas nos dois textos a seguir: trabalho 03
em 23/02

Texto 1:

On the eve of his 85th birthday, legendary record producer Quincy Jones covered a lot
of controversial ground in a wide-ranging interview with New York magazine.

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The frank interview touched on lighter fare, like astrology (he's a Pisces) and dating
Ivanka Trump, to why race relations and feminism are imperative movements right
now.

Jones gave many opinions about the music industry (namely, that it no longer exists),
but is optimistic about artists like Bruno Mars, Chance the Rapper, Kendrick Lamar,
Sam Smith and Mark Ronson. The verbose 28-time Grammy winner had plenty of hot
takes about the musical legends he's worked with over decades, from Michael Jackson
to the Beatles to Cream.

Here are some highlights from the conversation:

Michael Jackson lifted music from Donna Summer.

"He stole a lot of songs," Jones said, citing Donna Summer's "State of Independence,"
from which, he claimed, Jackson lifted the riff for his 1982 hit "Billie Jean." "He was as
Machiavellian as they come. Greedy, man. Greedy," he said. Jones also said that he
used to "kill" Jackson over his plastic surgery, calling the late pop star's vitiligo
justification "bullshit."

Jones thought the Beatles were terrible musicians.

"Paul was the worst bass player I ever heard. And Ringo? Don't even talk about it,"
Jones said, calling the legendary band "no-playing motherfuckers." The mega-producer
singled out Ringo Starr, who he worked with on his solo album. "I remember once ...
Ringo had taken three hours for a four-bar thing he was trying to fix on a song. He
couldn't get it. We said, 'Mate, why don't you get some lager and lime, some shepherd's
pie, and take an hour-and-a-half and relax a little bit.' So he did, and we called Ronnie
Verrell, a jazz drummer. Ronnie came in for 15 minutes and tore it up. Ringo comes
back and says, 'George, can you play it back for me one more time?' So George did, and
Ringo says, 'That didn't sound so bad.' And I said, 'Yeah, motherfucker because it ain't
you.' Great guy, though."

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/quincy-jones-on-michael-jackson-beatles-trump-
w516472

Texto 2:

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American
record producer, actor, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, television producer,
film producer, instrumentalist, magazine founder, entertainment company executive,
and humanitarian.[2] His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry, a record
79 Grammy Award nominations,[3] and 28 Grammys,[3] including a Grammy Legend
Award in 1991.

Raised in Seattle, Washington, Jones developed interest in music at an early age, and
attended the Berklee College of Music. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz
arranger and conductor, before moving on to work prolifically in pop music and film
scores. In 1968, Jones and his songwriting partner, Bob Russell, became the first
African Americans to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, for
"The Eyes of Love" from the Universal Pictures film Banning. That same year, Jones
was the first African American to be nominated twice in the same year for an Academy
Award for Best Original Score, as he was also nominated for his work on the 1967 film
In Cold Blood. In 1971, Jones was the first African American to be the musical director
and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. In 1995, he was the first African
American to receive the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He is tied with
sound designer Willie D. Burton as the African American who has been nominated for
the most Oscars; each has seven nominations.

Jones was the producer, with Michael Jackson, of Jackson's albums Off the Wall (1979),
Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987), as well as the producer and conductor of the 1985
charity song "We Are the World", which raised funds for victims of destitution in
Ethiopia.[4]

In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside
Lou Adler, of the Ahmet Ertegun Award.[5] Jones was also named by Time Magazine as
one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century.[2]

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones>

- Agora responda as questões a seguir:

a) Compreensão geral: descreva em poucas palavras o assunto do texto 1.

b) Ideias principais do texto 1: o que Quincy Jones revelou a respeito de Michael

Jackson? E dos Beatles?
c) Compreensão detalhada do texto 2:

- Quais as áreas de atuação profissional de Quincy Jones:

- Qual o seu apelido?

- Quais as principais premiações de sua carreira?

- Em que aspectos e momentos de sua carreira ele foi pioneiro?

- Identifique a relação profissional entre Quincy Jones e Michael Jackson.

4. Leia o texto a seguir e responda as questões abaixo: trabalho 03 em 23/02

Popular music studies

journal on media culture

ISSN 1567-7745

The issue of musical value by Motti Regev Spring,

1992 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Jimi Hendrix

Why are some works of rock music higher valued than others?
For an answer to that question, Motti Regev argues, we should
look at the way the producers and the interpreters succeeded in
gaining legitimacy and recognition. The authenticity of rock
and its musical value are meanings produced for the music by
its producers and by its interpreters as part of the strategy of
the struggle for recognition. The "classic" status of the Beatles,
the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix is the
successful result of this struggle over recognition, and not the
loss of some authentic meaning.

Fonte: http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/TRA/Popular_music_studies.shtml Acesso em:

19/09/2008

- Identifique o que significam no texto as informações solicitadas no itens abaixo:

a) Motti Regev Spring ________________________________

b) Popular music studies ______________________________

c) The Hebrew University ______________________________

d) Jimi Hendrix ______________________________________

- Aponte dez exemplos de palavras cognatas, ou seja, aquelas semelhantes aos

vocábulos da língua portuguesa.

- Aponte cinco exemplos de palavras não cognatas da língua inglesa cujos significados
você já conhecia previamente.